Hey, what's up, everybody? Welcome in. It's Tom Curran's Patriots Talk podcast. I am Tom Curran,

and as always, we are joined by the Senator Phil Perry and our Thursday guest, The Inimitable,

Mac Castle. Fellas, how are you? Fantastic. Fantastic. We're rocking and rolling. Week three,

let's go. Two fantastics is one too many for me. I'll just stick with the one. I'll go

fantastic, but I can't go double it up. You are more than fantastic, and you know it? And the only

reason I say that is that massive microphone you got in front of your mug. I mean, that thing right

there, that is straight out of a radio studio. And it's, should I move it? Should I move it? Because I don't want to prevent the people from seeing what they're

here to see. If they're watching us, if they're listening to us, that's great too. But I, you know,

I don't want to, I don't want to ruin the show. They're only missing your Adams Apple. Leave it

where it is. As for you, Matt, proud to be an American. We all are. At least we know we're free.

Good to have that backdrop.

Thank you. I appreciate that. I figured I'd change it up this week.

All right. What are we getting into this week? It's Patriots Raiders. So we're going to get deep into that matchup.

I'm going to start with the King of Meh, Derek Carr. We're also going to find out from Castle, why the wide outs last week had such a huge game and is Cam the right guy at the

right time, for this Patriots offense? Is it also too early to talk Cam contract? And after that,

we're going to do a little read and react. First things first though, Derek Carr, here's the weird

thing about him, guys. The Raiders are 17 and 30 over his last three seasons, but he's got a two to one TD interception ratio,

and he's been over 4,000 yards passing in each of the last two years.

He went to three Pro Bowls at the start of his career.

So my question to both of you,

when I'm going to start with Phil,

because Matt's going to take us into some of the exes and Ozes,

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